With a greater onus on conveyancers to show they are actively protecting themselves and their clients against mortgate fraud, Peter Rodd shares his tips on how firms can avoid falling prey to criminals - and bearing the financial consequences

Litigators need to propound to their clients the benefits of mediation in property disputes to cut down on the expensive and time-consuming battles through the courts, say Brie Stevens-Hoare QC and Rupert Cohen

An owner of a speedway stadium, the noise from which neighbours claimed amounted to a nuisance, could not raise as a defence the fact that those neighbours, having bought the house knowing it was near the stadium, had "come to the nuisance".

Anyone concerned about the erosion of public open space in our cities should take note of Evans v Conservators of Wimbledon and Putney Commons, says Glenda Ferneyhough, as she rounds up the latest developments in residential property law